Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Puttin’ the Shine On

Friday October 7, 2011
Millpoint Campground
Peoria, Illinois

Thursday was another lovely lazy morning.
Duckie was enjoying his view.

I was enjoying mine.

It has been simply gorgeous weather
here for the past 3 days
and we have so enjoyed being here
that we decided we’d just
stay through the week-end,
which will make it the entire week,
and use this time and great spot to get the shine on.

So after breakfast David Washed part of Winnona
got out the Rejex and went to work
waxing and polishing her up.

We hope Santa may bring him a ladder big enough
to enable him to reach the top. But until then he
has it figured out.

I volunteered to entertain the waxer by
reading aloud from Donald Hall’s Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry.(I think he likes to keep me out of the way)

Took a break for a great lunch
at my favorite outdoor dining establishment.

Yes that is dessert there at 4:00.

And then back at it.

Don’t we both look happy??

She’s gonna be SO spiffy when he gets finished.

Today, Friday,
David decided to give Ruby the wash and wax
routine first. She deserves some TLC
after her rough bout with hail in Oklahoma
and being dragged around
after Winnona all these miles.

Check out the end result.
Candy Apple RED for sure!!

Then back to work on Winnona.
Waxer and reader back on the job.

And then later, as if that wasn’t enough,
he decided he had to move
the converter box up front so he could
switch it back and forth between the rear and the front TV.
SOME day digital and flat screens will get up on our
list but we don’t watch enough TV for them to be there yet.

The man can’t sit down. If there isn’t
something that “needs” to be done then
he’ll create something.

BUT this idea didn’t work out so well.
He’d have to tell you the details of why not.
But everything will have to be put back.
But that’s for tomorrow.
He was plenty tired by bedtime.

A few week-enders moved in this afternoon
and they all, without exception,
have their party lights out, their campfires blazin’
and their music on.

And we found the first draw back to Millpoint.
There are no “rules”.
No posted quiet hours and no one
from the management back here to know
how late the music goes on.
In this case about midnight.

We of course have no lights, no fire, no music.
Just full timers on a permanent week-end
where the “partying” ends a bit earlier.J